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Topic: Mass Effect 3 (expect spoilers for the entire series)

No Mass Effect fan am I, but I would like to point out that the Baldur's Gate games also featured multiplayer, with no adverse effect on the single player experience. So Bioware is absolutely capable of getting this right.

Ahh, that's right. It'd require something REALLY stupid happening on some level to screw things up. Certainly I don't see them being like Capcom there!

A great fucking way to get minerals and shit is salvaging from a battle. Have a space battle, or maybe an assault mission and then you just recover items. The harder the mission, the better the payoff.

The problem is with space battles in the ME universe. If you read the codex crap from ME1 they say that it's basically huge capital ships in a battle of attrition. Fighters are basically suicide attacks because automatic targeting vaporizes them

Then let's go pirate and have it be more of a scavanging operation. You find a derelict vessle, have to traverse it's creepy hallways, and pinpoint locations where minerals can be extracted. Some of them contain aliens, renegades, or volitile conditions.

A great fucking way to get minerals and shit is salvaging from a battle. Have a space battle, or maybe an assault mission and then you just recover items. The harder the mission, the better the payoff.

The problem is with space battles in the ME universe. If you read the codex crap from ME1 they say that it's basically huge capital ships in a battle of attrition. Fighters are basically suicide attacks because automatic targeting vaporizes them

Then let's go pirate and have it be more of a scavanging operation. You find a derelict vessle, have to traverse it's creepy hallways, and pinpoint locations where minerals can be extracted. Some of them contain aliens, renegades, or volitile conditions.

That's a damn fine idea. Taking that a step further with a renegade twist...raiding and boarding ships that aren't abandoned!

I played through Mass Effect 1 & 2 a lot of times. CUrrently I have five 'main' characters for transfer into ME3 - three male, two female. The female voice just seems so bored and subdued a lot of the time. Male Shepard is much better voiced.

For ME3 I hope they take away the ship navigation on the galaxy map. Keep fuel expenditure, maybe, but the actual piloting around of the normandy felt ridiculous. In a game where you're trying to impress w/ the size of the galaxy which is filled with brilliant looking planets and nebulae having something so completely off scale is cheapening.

In the 1st one it could be made that it was simply a scaled map. in 2 since you actually flew around that doesn't work.

No Mass Effect fan am I, but I would like to point out that the Baldur's Gate games also featured multiplayer, with no adverse effect on the single player experience. So Bioware is absolutely capable of getting this right.

Ahh, that's right. It'd require something REALLY stupid happening on some level to screw things up. Certainly I don't see them being like Capcom there!

You are assuming Bioware will do the multiplayer. Remember, EA owns their ass. Stuff like this has been outsourced before.

Yeah, I went the Tali route. First off, I thought she was the most interesting female character in the series, bar none, and the most likeable, especially since I tend to play paragon. All the other women seem hollier-than-thow in some way. And secondly, I have to admit, BioWare did a damn good job of making a suited, faceless character attractive.

Still, all the sex scenes were crap. Miranda's wasn't TERRIBLE, but it still felt wrong. All of them are too abrupt, with people GRABBING EACHOTHER REALLY FAST! I guess they're trying to show how non-committal the relationship is. Still, they feel off.

can i just say the sex scenes in ME2 and DA2 for that matter are well embarassing to look at. when someone showed me the one with a female x the pirate lady on youtube i seriously couldnt stop laughing it was so bad. maybe for male x female it wouldnt of been so bad but for female x female just....LOL! do some research fellas heh.

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